Welcoming Remarks and Session with Keynote Speaker Jerry Nickelsburg, Economist

Welcome and Introductions
Rich Gumbrecht, CEO, Secured Finance Network
Kurt Marsden, Executive Vice President, Head of Capital Finance, Wells Fargo

Keynote Speaker Jerry Nickelsburg

Jerry Nickelsburg is an economist who plays a key role in the economic modeling and forecasting of the national, California and regional economies. He joined the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA Anderson Forecast in 2006. Since 2017, he has served as faculty director of the Forecast and has conducted special studies for the Forecast on manufacturing, trade, and labor markets. Nickelsburg travels regularly with students to Asia as professor and advisor in global immersion courses. He developed forecasting tools for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and has advised banks, investors, and financial institutions. 

He earned a PhD in economics at the University of Minnesota and was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Ecuador and Peru. His current research is on transportation economics focusing on the development of new data and the application of economic theory and statistical methods to sector-specific policy issues.

Formerly a professor of economics at the University of Southern California, Nickelsburg has held executive positions with McDonnell Douglas, FlightSafety International and Boeing during a 15-year span in the aviation business. He developed forecasting tools for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and has advised banks, investors, and financial institutions. From 2000 to 2006, he was the managing principal of Deep Blue Economics, a consulting firm he founded. 

Nickelsburg is frequently cited in the national media. He has published more than 100 scholarly and popular articles on economic policy, monetary economics, statistics, labor economics and industrial organization. He is the author of two books on monetary economics and exchange rates.